Katrin Bennhold

Katrin Bennhold is a staff writer based in London. A native German who spent most of her career in France, Ms. Bennhold’s reporting has ranged from covering terrorist attacks in Algiers to youth rioting in Paris’s ethnically mixed suburbs, teenagers addicted to Facebook and rogue trading at one of France’s biggest banks. She writes a regular news column for the international edition of the paper.

From 2010 to 2013, Ms. Bennhold focused primarily on gender issues, exploring gender gaps and work-life models across Europe. She met Swedish hunters on father’s leave, looked beneath the veneer of equality in republican France and discovered layers of stubborn history in Germany’s struggle to give women more opportunities.

As French political correspondent from 2004 to 2009, Ms. Bennhold covered the final years of Jacques Chirac’s presidency and the rise of Nicolas Sarkozy, writing about efforts to reform the labor market and zooming in on issues of religious and ethnic identity among Muslim immigrants.

Before joining The Times company in 2004, Ms. Bennhold was an international economics writer for Bloomberg News in Paris and a television reporter for Bloomberg TV and N24, a German 24-hour news channel in London. She graduated in 1998 from the London School of Economics with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics and was a Nieman fellow at Harvard University in 2012 and 2013. She is married with two daughters.

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Sixteen British medical students and young doctors left for Syria to join the Islamic State this year, after being recruited by a British medical student at a university in Sudan, the BBC reported on Friday.